Editors Comparison

Visual Studio Code

Dominating with Microsoft and Copilot

Official packages

Great package management, snippets, configurability and release cycle

Repl/CodeSandbox

Probably the future with inbrowser editing and sharing

Vim/Emacs

Vi vs emacs

Emacs

• common shortcuts on terminal, google docs, Typora, etc

• more powerful editor

• Highly configurable and timeless

• masters have extremely high speed

Vi

• more ergonamic shortcuts and easier navigation cuz modes

• masters have extremely high speed

• Faster/more commonly on machines

• commands not beautiful, more acronyms

• Highly configurable and timeless

• Available on every server basically since in the cmd prompt, devops speciality

Atom

Sunset by Github so RIP

Electron so considered slow

Great package management, snippets, configurability

Shortcuts and stuff, nuclide usage

Packages can be unmaintained